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Insights, tips, and resources for tomorrow's software developers and IT professionals -- and those who teach and coach them -- from kids coding coach and advocate Michael O'Connell. Michael currently leads coding clubs, camps and activities for grade school students. Prior to turning his focus to helping kids learn coding and computer science concepts, Michael served as developerWorks Founding Editor in Chief (and at that time this blog covered the evolution of developerWorks and related topics of interest to the dW community).

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Today developerWorks unveils an update to our design. Key features include a simplified site navigation, via a new masthead and footer on nearly every developerWorks page as well as a much improved search engine -- so that you'll now more easily find all developerWorks materials, including our community materials as well as our professionally developed, award-winning how-to articles and tutorials.
While the masthead and footer stand out as most visible change, the update is much richer, and based on substantial user research.
Now you can also:
Sign in to developerWorks from the masthead on any developerWorks page, and quickly access your personalized dashboard from the masthead menu. (Select your display name and expand to reveal shortcuts to your profile, personalized community homepage, and a summary of any pending colleague requests or recently received notifications.)
Syndicate your favorite developerWorks content or URLs more easily, via persistent share tools in the footer.
Easily follow developerWorks on Facebook or Twitter. (These options are also available in the footer of every page now.)
You'll also see many improvements to some of your favorite developerWorks destinations, such as a simplified developerWorks home page and updates to developerWorks Events, Evaluation software, and Community main pages. We've updated the information in About developerWorks, New to Community, Feeds and syndication and more, and even added a brand new Technical... [More]

This week developerWorks employed a new, interactive "mouseover" design treatment on the developerWorks home page. This enhancement displays the descriptions of each week's featured content when you point your mouse at a title (rather than showing all descriptions simultaneously). Give it a try, and share your feedback . Update 1 (1:20 p.m. EST): Seems a bit of a performance issue with the script on our server so for now we may back out this update. Stay tuned.
Update 2 (5:15 p.m. EST): A nit was fixed and seems things are better, so (for now at least) we're retaining the mouseover treatment. We welcome and appreciate your input .